 The cold sweat melted from their limbs, Nor rot nor reek did they: The look with which they looked on me Had never passed away. An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye!...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 434edited by - 1836Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1863 - 392 pages
...orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high ; But oh ! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye ! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die. And nowhere did abide : In his loneliness ,, „-,, . , , . . and fl*edness he 1 he movmg Moon went... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 720 pages
...orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high ; But oh ! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye ! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die. The moving Moon went up the sky, £dhJ±±iS And nowhere did abide : yearneth towards ,,-,.. the journeying... | |
 | Australian periodicals - 1864 - 744 pages
...were at my feet. An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high ; But Oh ! more horrible than that Is the curse of a dead man's eye ! Seven days, seven nights, I saw tliat curse, And yet I could not die!" Such was the culminating point of the sufferer's penance. His... | |
 | Spiritualism - 1866 - 582 pages
...And, oh ! more horrible than all was that curse in their dead eyes, which had never passed away : •' Seven days, seven nights I saw that curse, And yet I could not die. The many men, so beautiful ! And they all dead did lie : And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1869 - 206 pages
...orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high ; But oh ! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye ! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die. • The moving Moon went up the sky, And no where did abide : Softly she was going up, And a star or... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1869
...orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But, oh ! more terrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye ! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die. The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide : Softly she was going up And a star or two... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 720 pages
...orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high ; But oh ! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die. " The moving Moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide : Softly she was going up, And a star or two... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 668 pages
...to hell A spirit from on high : But oh ' more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye t Seven days, seven nights I saw that curse, And yet I could not die. "The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high ; But 0, more horrible than that „ Is the curse in seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green. Fast he stealeth on, though The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide ; she was going up, And a star or two beside.... | |
 | American literature - 1872 - 660 pages
...curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high ; But, oh ! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye. Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse ; And yet I could not die. " The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide ; Softly she was going up, And a star or two... | |
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